Wellcome Trust – Science Resource Kits Schools are very lucky in the UK, they often receive good support and free resources from organisations to help them develop the National Curriculum. One organisation is the Wellcome Trust which is sending free science kits to schools in UK. This article was published in the TES on 16th May which outlined […]
After returning from Toulouse and running my one hour workshop there, I was then able to do the same with another one of our courses for Teaching Assistants here in Moscow. Initially, the plan was just for the workshop to involve the teaching assistants but due to time constraints we included the teachers into the […]
Supporting the EAL child in the Primary Science classroom requires the use of real concrete objects. Using real objects will provide more vocabulary. To get this message across I started off with the teachers gathering together all the vocabulary they could think of for a lemon. When they had done this, I then showed them a coloured […]
Practical Pedagogies Conference was held on 15th to 16th October 2015 at the International School of Toulouse (IST). This was my first workshop held at an International Teachers Conference, and to say that I was looking forward to this event is probably an understatement. I have run many CPD events for both my own company […]
This work was part of a unit on instruction writing in English class. I have always noticed that instructional writing poses certain problems for children, even adults for that matter, as we are so used to doing an activity we often interpret or leave out parts within a sequence. For that reason I have always […]
You will see on our project page further details about Roamer going to work with Russian children as well as links to resources on the Valiant Technologies Roamer page I first introduced the robot to my English as a Second Language group (ESL) as I wanted to see not just how they reacted to using […]
Museum Night I was very fortunate to be in Moscow when they had this event which was held this year on Saturday May 17th 2014. This is an annual event which is growing in popularity and where museums and other cultural establishments allow free entrance. There was a wonderful atmosphere in the city as people […]
Just a very quick update, the children in this school as yet have not had the opportunity to start blogging so myself and the year five teacher have set up class blogs. Here is the link to my year 4 class http://aisyear4.blogspot.ru/ I have also set up a school podcast here http://audioboo.fm/AtlanticDubrovka. I will add a link for […]
Well as of this Saturday 26th April 2014 I will have been in Moscow a total of 15 days. I will not go into the reasons as to why a fairly large group of teachers where recruited to teach for Atlantic International School in Moscow but needless to say it has been quite an amazing […]
Ever since I became a teacher back in 1999 I have become fully aware of the value of teaching assistants. Without them in class I really do not think teachers could survive, especially as mainstream schools now have more children with specialised learning needs. However; even without inclusion issues, where on earth would a busy classroom teacher […]
